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Title: Automatic calibration
Post by: A.alhudar on 04-17-2013 -- 23:27:32
Hi.....
Guys Iam trying to prove my self in my section.pmel.
Iam thinking of making a software that can do an automatic calibration for multimeters if possible and I want you guys to guide me and tell me what I need to make that software.
For example fluke 87v.

Title: Re: Automatic calibration
Post by: USMC kalibrater on 04-18-2013 -- 05:22:41
We would need far more details to begin to make reccomendations. 
Besides Fluke METCAL already does just what you want to do
Title: Re: Automatic calibration
Post by: Hawaii596 on 04-18-2013 -- 09:11:20
Fluke MetCal, SureCal and a couple of others are well established as automation software and plenty of already written procedures out there.  I know I love to tinker and learn and develop.  If you really want to develop something yourself (although, again, MetCal has already developed it - and you may have already written procedures available for 1000's of different models), you could consider National Instruments Labview.  I use Labview for some other automation tasks.  It is not focused particularly on calibration though, and may be more difficult to tailor to calibration.  MetCal and the other calibration-specific automation programs are very well suited to creating data sheets, reporting uncertainties, automatically communicating with the calibration recall database, etc.  Labview is not set up for that.  I am running some automated trend analysis routines on my DC voltage standards in the standards lab.  But it doesn't generate reports the MetCal does.